Nothing I wrote in 2024, nevermind 2025, is out yet, but this piece I mostly wrote in 2022 was published in July so there’s that: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is wild. At no point at the peak of structural adjustment would you have heard the IMF or WB say: ‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’ www.ft.com/content/2d9e...

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is an excellent article from Ben Hetherington, a PhD student I’m very lucky to work with 👇

I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13

I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New post where I push a little bit further on my previous writing on agroecology being a project of class suicide and why this means small privately-owned farms are not the vehicle of change for agroecology as too often supposed thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/towards-an...

Along with all the obvious ways this is stupid, it’s bothering me that the guys having lunch on the steel beam in the original photo were decidedly not the ‘architects’. It’s all very ‘bourgeois pretense of doing labour’…

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social: From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion It's Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s socialism or barbarism, and the ‘centre left’ will choose barbarism every time… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is v. good 👇

When 'ceasefire' is genocide by other means www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

Everything at Pluto is half off this monrth -- along with a lot of other great books, this means you can get a copy of Fictions of Financialization for pretty cheap at the moment! www.plutobooks.com/product/fict...

Really enjoying this!

It feels likely that, alongside redundancies, at least some UK universities respond to a tax on international student fees by raising international recruitment targets to try to make up the shortfall per student…

OUT NOW "Remittances as translocal collateral: How microfinance profitably sustains precarity in Cambodia" @vincentguermond.bsky.social as lead, bringing together !5! studies on the relationship between migration, remittances, and microfinance debt. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Important new report out on precarious working conditions in Geography in UK HE. Sadly the nature and scale of the findings are grim but unsurprising. www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Probably as good a time as any for Sivanandan on the British state's contortions around immigration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

New commentary! I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s. It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF. theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...

Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.

New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future. transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta... @campolis.bsky.social

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

Another absolute banger in our war/climate/geopolitics series

Real hot take: Having a series of emails with a famous pedophile where you strategize about how to coerce a student into sex should specifically disqualify you from teaching or being around students... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

@abotebuno.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @nickbernards.bsky.social @healingchronicles.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social www.networkideas.org/2025/11/14/g...

We are hiring! Please share! Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South careers.mun.ca/hss/api/care... @memorialu.bsky.social Note we are working with a very tight deadline

This looks really good: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

I'm reading the World Bank's 2024 International Debt Report, and what a blunt way to kick-off such a document! Not long ago, so many people in development policy circles were indeed repeating the "from billions to trillions" phrase as a silver bullet for development financing and global development.

🚨You always wondered about how to make sense of the many accounts on Green Finance? We got you covered: @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @danmertens.bsky.social ky.social Julius Kob and I critically review existing accounts and argue for an integrated analytical approach👇 doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Recommended reading and timely, too, as the British Chancellor continues to falsely assume that pandering to financial fractions in the City will result in the investment which is so desperately needed across economy and society www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Successive Labour and Tory governments in this country absolutely deserve lots of blame for the state of universities in this country. But they’ve got nothing on university managers.

My employer has announced a voluntary redundancy scheme. By the standards of what’s happening elsewhere in the UK it’s really not that bad… But the fact that the University insists on describing this as an ‘investment’ is mind-boggling.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... our piece on Germany and the question of imperialism is out. An attempt at wrapping our heads around the political economy of Germany in times of genocide.

Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.

This kind of half-hopeful take hoping that some imminent Chinese hegemony will save us from climate breakdown is grimly fascinating.

Okay so my main takeaway from this exercise is that ‘technofeudalism’ only makes sense 1) if you have an overly rigid, ahistorical and abstract understanding of ‘capitalism’ to begin with, and 2) you assume an analysis of big tech is an analysis of actually-existing capitalism as a whole.

Worth reading - really captures the dilemmas facing states, especially peripheral states, as vehicles for decarbonization. on.ft.com/43eCwxD

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...

New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars? This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests. academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

Important to keep this in perspective -- the specific techniques by which the Trump administration has undermined global climate action here are new, and more belligerent. But the US state has, for a very long time, been a major obstacle to even bare minimum measures... www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

Brilliant book @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social

Giving up my principled refusal to take ideas about ‘neo-/techno-feudalism’ seriously and giving this a (skeptical) read:

🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski: Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488